Playing with Colored Pencils

4″by 6″

Lately I’ve been getting back into colored pencils. Mostly because they require so much less planning than watercolors and it just feels freeing to use a pencil instead of a brush. I’ve also discovered Derwent Coloured Pencils. I’ve tried both their ColourSoft and their Colour Drawing pencils. They are much softer than the Faber Castell Albrecht Durer pencils I had been using. They also seem to be a hair less shiny, having more of a “sheen” than a shine.

I’ve also started using a program called Excalidraw to make notes about my process. I hate to think how many times i’ve looked at an old drawing and tried to remember what colors I used in it. This is nothing like a finished piece. It’s just for play.